Families of languages
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Polysynthetic or incorporating languages
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Words are often very long and complex, containing agglutinating and inflectional features
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Highly complex words may be formed by combining several stems and affixes
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Usually making nouns into parts of the verb forms
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Some linguistic do not regard this as a separate typological category
The problem of classification
There are a lot of possible classifications – if two languages are 90% similar in phonology and 50% similar in grammar, what is more important?
Both classifications ignore relevance of cultural links between languages – borrowing words..
Sometimes, because of borrowing words and two languages being influenced one another, it seems they have a common origin
Some linguists tried to move away from a classification into general types -> using individual structural criteria (for example number of morphemes per word in the sentence)